Storyboarder

Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without making a movie.

We built Storyboarder because the storyboarding tool we wanted simply didn't exist. We are making it better every day. In fact, we have released it free and open source. You can and even make improvements.

Can you apply storyboarding and pitches to the story development process as animation has done? We think so. We would love to hear your feedback to make Storyboarder the best storyboarding tool possible.

Fast and Simple

Storyboarder is designed to be simple. We included the tools you need to board fast, and removed everything you don't need.

6 simple drawing tools

Light pencil for roughing, Hard Pencil for fine lines, Pen for most work, Brush to tone, Note Pen to write notes, and Eraser!

Add boards with a click

Theres no friction. Add a board. Draw. Add another. Draw. Duplicate. Copy. Paste. Rearrange. There is nothing stopping you.

Enter dialogue and action

Add metadata for a board on the right panel. You can also enter timing information and shot type.

For everything else, just edit in Photoshop.

Click edit in Photoshop

Draw your roughs and do layout in Storyboarder. If you need more control, just click the edit in photoshop button!

Edit in Photoshop and save

The board will open up in Photoshop. Just edit as you normally would. Once you save, it will automatically update in Storyboarder!

Who's this for?

Story Artists

Craft stories visually from your thoughts to boards as fast as possible.

Directors

Sketch your shot list through boards to see if they work as a movie.

Writers

Take your written stories and visualize them. See the words come to life.

Advertisers

Create storyboards for advertisements so you can visually show your clients.

Dreamers

Have an idea and a dream? Create and iterate on your idea by drawing it.

Anyone with an idea

You can storyboard even the smallest idea. You don't even have to be able to draw!

Do you like storyboarding on paper? Print and import paper storyboards magically.

In Storyboarder, you can print out storyboard worksheets. Draw on as many frames and pages as you like. Then take a picture of the worksheet with your phone and Storyboarder will automatically import the boards into your project.

Export to Premiere, Final Cut, Avid, PDF,
and Animated GIF

Export to any editing program. This is great for cutting together your boards or doing realtime editing at shoots. You can also export a contact sheet of your boards as a PDF, and an Animated GIF – perfect for sharing and collaboration.

Focus with a Sketch Sprint and then share a timelapse.

Need to focus? Set a Sketch Sprint timer and just draw and storyboard until the time runs out. At the end of the Sketch Sprint, we will create an animated timelapse gif of your work. It's great for sharing!

Rest in peace, Mr. Wiggles. (1980-2003) #bettertohavelovedandlost

Timelapse of a random ass cat I drew in 15 minutes during a Sketch Sprint. Mr. Wiggles was lost due to an unfortunate adult circumcision.

Generate a shot just by typing...

Can't draw? Have a shot list? Or just want to quickly mockup reference shots without drawing? Just type a description into the Shot Generator in the sidebar, press return, and generate as many shots as you'd like. Change parameters as you want. Shots are fully customizable.

Double click to put it in the reference layer of the board. The generated shots are meant to be drawn over so they can be used as a guide.

If you can describe a shot and draw a smiley face, you can storyboard!

So you can generate a scene in seconds.

Examples of shots...

Key commands for everything.

Key commands really speed up your work. Pressing "N" for new board, and left and right arrows from navigating is essential. For some, knowing all the key commands is the key to working quickly. If you'd like to know what's possible, just press:

Command + K